[MPlayer-dev-eng] Automatic Codec Downloader

[malc]

>

Mike,

Send/post the perl code you have so far - and I'll take a look - I've done some
LWP:: stuff before and it shouldn't be too tricky to make it work.

Malc.

> Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 21:58:47 -0700 (MST)
> From: Mike Melanson <melanson at pcisys.net>
> To: mplayer-dev-eng at mplayer.dev.hu
> Subject: [MPlayer-dev-eng] Automatic Codec Downloader
> Reply-To: mplayer-dev-eng at mplayerhq.hu
>
> Hi team,
>         Has anyone ever considered modifying the MPlayer distribution so
> that it can download codecs automatically from Microsoft? I figured out
> how to do it and tried to code it up this evening, but hit a roadblock
> when I tried to write a Perl script to do the downloading part.
>
>         I was thinking that the configure script could ask the user if
> they wanted to download codecs from Microsoft's site and then launch this
> script, which would gather up the FOURCCs and format numbers from
> etc/codecs.conf and download the required codec files Microsoft. The
> codecs are packaged as .CAB (cabinet) files, and there's a GPL'd tool for
> extracting the data that could be distributed with MPlayer. MPlayer would
> keep them in the installation tree and install them in the right place
> during the 'make install' phase. We could later adapt the script to
> download XAnim modules and others as well.
>
>         Anyway, if there's any interest, and/or if anyone knows how to
> program the Perl WWW lib (LWP), let me know.
>
>         Thanks...
> --
>         -Mike Melanson
>
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